DOWN THE DRAIN Definition & Meaning

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down the drain

On the way to being lost or wasted; disappearing. For example, Buying new furniture when they can't take it with them is just pouring money down the drain, or During the Depression huge fortunes went down the drain. This metaphoric term alludes to water going down a drain and being carried off. [Colloquial; c. 1920] For a synonym, see down the tubes.

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“With Trump it isn't that they're just delighted with him, but they view him as the only alternative. They think that the country is going down the drain and their kids are being taught all kinds of things in elementary school that they don't like. They think the left is just shoving the rest of the country into the arms of Donald Trump.”

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On TikTok, users have demanded a boycott of American products, filming themselves pouring Coca Cola down the drain.

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Previously, a single flush could send 5 to 7 gallons—an office watercooler’s worth of water—down the drain.

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And down the drain would go their pursuit of a national championship, the first in the program’s history.

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You don’t finish the milk by that date, of course, so you dutifully pour the remainder down the drain the day after.

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